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>> Topic:          inet_network() buffer overflow
>
> For the "usual suspects" of applications running, (e.g. sendmail, apache, 
> BIND etc) would it be possible to pass crafted packets through to this 
> function remotely via those apps ?  ie how easy is this to do ?

Speaking solely for sendmail, this issue does not appear to impact
sendmail or any utilities/libraries in the sendmail distribution.
Nothing in the sendmail distribution calls inet_network() or getnet*()
(which appears to use inet_network() in libc).